Viewers left furious as documentary shows Appleby Horse Fair travellers ‘cruelly’ whipping horses and ‘urinating in gardens’
'Local residents lock the doors and don't leave the house'
“For the ordinary residents of Appleby, [the fair] is pretty awful. You can’t go out, you can’t get to the shops, you can’t drive around.Nigel says he locks up the hotel and only lets guests in through the front door. In 2009, the fair's worst year for violence, a mass brawl broke out and, in total, there were 106 arrests, 54 crimes and 244 incidents.
“One night there was a huge problem with four guys who said they didn’t want to pay for their food,” he says. “I told them ‘You ate here so you’ve got to pay for it’ but they were having none of it.But the travellers claim the fears are unjustified, and that the locals are prejudiced against them. But the travellers round on her, shouting “we’re not children”, with one insisting he has a buyer interested in the horse so “he’s got to have speed.”
Traditionally horses and riders, who have travelled hundreds of miles to the site, wash themselves by plunging into the River Eden, ensuring the animals being traded are “clean and pretty” for potential buyers.
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